Milk-cooler.



T. E. DICKSON.

MILK COOLER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 29.1909.

Patented Aug. 10, 1909. mums-sum 1.

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attain T. E. DIGKSON,

MILK COOLER.

APPLICATION rum APR. 29.1909.

Patented Aug. 10, 1909.

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uvenl'oz witmmom atkuwu Una TOMhS EDWARD DIOKSON, OF LOTT, TEXAS.

MILK-COOLER.

Specification of Letters Patent. I

Patented dug. 10, 1909.

Application filed. April. 29, E909. serial No. 93,033.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, To Mas E. DICKSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lott, in the county of Falls and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Milk-Coolers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in milk coolers of that class in which cold water is allowed to drip upon porous coverings arranged on jars or other containers for the milk.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and practical device of this character which will be simple, strong, durable and inexpensive in construction and which may be adapted to cool large or small. quantities of milk or the like according to the needs of the user.

\Vith the above and other objects in View, the invention consists of the novel features of construction and the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the :uzcompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of one em' bodiment of the-invention; Fig. 2 is a ver tical transverse sectional view through the same; and Fig. 3 is a similar View of a modified form of the invention which has double the capacity of that shown in Fig. 2.

The invention comprises a stand 1 on which may be placed one or more jars 2 or other containers for the milk, cream, butter or the like to be kept cool and above which is supported a cold water reservoir or tank from which the water drips upon a porous cover 3 which surrounds the jar 2. Said covering 3 is preferably in the form of a fabric bag in which the jar 2 is placed and the open top of which is brought together over a removable top 4 arranged upon the jar, as shown more clearly in Fig. 2 of the drawings. Said stand 1 preferably comprises a rectangular frame supported in a horizontal position by legs 5 and covered by a foraminous top (3 on whichthe jar or jars 2 are placed. Said top 6 may be made of metal gauze or of perforated metal plate, as shown, and it is also preferably covered by a strip 7 of fabric or other porous material on which the jars are placed. The waste "water dripping from the foraminous or reticulate top 6 is collected by a drip pan 8' arranged between and secured to the legs 5, as shown at t). Said drip pan is preferably of Vshape'in cross section and is inclined downwardly from one end to the other end of the stand, a suitable collecting receptacle 10 being placed beneath its lower end to re ceive the water.

ll denotes a lunizontally disposed and longitudinally extending cold. water tank supported above and nearer to one side of the stand 1 by means of an elevated frame which lists from the stand. As illustrated, said frame consists of two end members each having uprights l2 13 connected at their upper ends by a cross piece 14- provided with an inwardly extending ledge if to receive and support one end of the tank or receptacle 4. If do. 'rcd, the standards '13 may be formed by continuing the upper ends of the legs 5 on one side of the stand, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The tank ll. has projecting from its front side a plurality of gage cocks lti which are so disposed. that they will. over the jars .2 placed upon the top (5 of the stand. By adjusting the cocks 16 the cold water in the tank 1.]. may be caused to drip as fast or as slow as may be desired. Said tank 11 has a closed top in which is formed an opening, 17 to receive the neck of an inverted jug or the lilte 18 which forms a reservoir for maintaining a constant level of waterin the tank 11. If desired, tlie'tank'll may be filled or partially filled with ice through the opening 17 so that the water or other cooling medium will effectively chill the contents of the jars 2 as it passes through the porous coverings 3 thereon.

From the foregon-ig it \Vll'l. be seen thatthe invention provides an exceedingly simple device of this character which may be produced at a small cost and will be strong and durable and which is adapted to receive any number of are of milk and jars of any size, within determined limits.

Fig. of the drawings shows a device which is similar in constriurtion and operation in all respects to that of the one shown -in l i; s. 1 and 2 with the exception that it is made double so as to have twice the capacity, as will be readily understood on ref-. erence to said Fig. 3.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed is: I

1. A milk cooler comprising a stand havinp; a foraminous top, a drip pan arranged in the stand beneath said top, an elevated support rising from the stand and a reservoir for cooling liquid arranged. in said elevated support and having a discharge disposed over said torarninous top of the stand.

2. A milk cooler comprising a stand having a torarninous top, a drip pan arranged in the stand beneath said top, an elevated support rising from the stand, a tank arranged in said elevated support and having a closed t'op formed with an opening, a gage cock projecting from said tank and disposed over the foraininous top of the stand, and an inverted reservoir having a reduced end or neck projecting through the opening in the top of the tank and adapted to maintain a constant levelot' cooling medium therein.

3. A milk cooler comprising a stand having a foraminous top, a drip pan arranged in the stand beneath said top, an elevated support rising from the stand, a container upon said foraniinous top, a closure for said container, a porous covering surrounding the container and extending over its closure and a reservoir tank for a cooling medium arranged in said elevated support and eaoess adapted to discharge its contents upon sait. porous covering.-

4 A nnlk cooler comprising a stand having a rectangular body and depending sup porting'legs, a foraininous top upon said body, a drip pan of V-shape in cross section secured in a downwardly inclined position between the supporting legs for the stand, connected uprights rising from the body portion of the stand and having inwardly projecting supporting ledges, a longitudinally extending tank arranged on said ledges and having a closed top provided with an opening a plurality of gage cocks projecting from said tank and disposed over the foaminous top of the stand and an inverted reservoir having a reduced end or neck projecting into the opening in the top of the tank.

in testimony whereof l hereunto atlix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses. 'lOivL-tS EUWARD DICKSON.

lVii-uesses H. A. PA'r'roN, A. (l. llIGNKE. 

